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King V - Appointment and Delegation to Management

Ensuring Operational Effectiveness and Role Clarity in Governance

Course Overview This specialized online course, derived from the King V Code on Corporate Governance for South Africa by the Institute of Directors in South Africa, centers on Principle 7, which requires the governing body to oversee appointments and delegations to management for operational effectiveness and clear authority. King V integrates ethical leadership with sustainable value creation, emphasizing integrated thinking, Ubuntu, stakeholder inclusivity, and governance outcomes such as performance, conformance, and legitimacy within economic, social, and environmental contexts.

Key Learning Objectives

• Comprehend Principle 7: The governing body's role in ensuring appointments and delegations foster operational efficiency, authority clarity, and accountability, potentially delegating oversight while retaining responsibility.
• Explore CEO appointment practices, including selection, accountability to the board, leadership in strategy implementation, exclusion from key committees, succession planning, and annual performance evaluations.
• Examine delegation frameworks: Approve authority delegations, ensure competent leadership of key functions with adequate resources, and implement succession planning for executive and critical positions.
• Understand professional corporate governance services: Access independent guidance on duties, approve appointments or removals of company secretaries or equivalents, ensure competence and objectivity, maintain arms-length relationships, and establish reporting lines for statutory and administrative functions.
• Integrate the Code's outcomes-based structure, scalable practices for steering, approving, overseeing, and accountability, with an "apply and explain" regime for proportional application across sectors.

Who Should Enroll? Executives, board members, governance professionals, and leaders in corporate, public, or non-profit organizations seeking to optimize management structures, delegation processes, and leadership continuity in South Africa.

Course Features

• Self-paced modules with practical scenarios, assessments, and delegation templates.
• Duration: 5-7 hours.
• Includes King V resources, succession planning tools.
• Certification.

Benefits Develop expertise to enhance operational clarity, mitigate delegation risks, and ensure leadership depth. Promote organizational efficiency, conformance to standards, and sustainable performance through structured appointments and empowered management.